Visit of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) on October 4, 1955

Dr. Jean Filiozat, 1st Director of the IFP

Inauguration of NACLIN 2014 in the presence of former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, presenting at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on March 23, 2015, the Presidential Award of Certificate of Honour to Pandit S. Sambandan Sivacharya

This database, edited as a CD-Rom (MARAM, "trees" in many South India languages) - the first of its kind in an electronic form in India - give informations on the multiple usages of trees of farms. It includes totally 269 tree species, with 19 endemic species in 544 farms of varying sizes, scaterred in more than 61 districts among 3 states : Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

The CD, laced with 1500 images, presents the morphology, the farming methods, usages and ecological advantages of these trees.